"The deceased was strangled from behind with something like a rope and thrown into the well after he died." Gong Li leaned down, examined it roughly, and came to a basic conclusion.

There was a person dressed as a guard, who went in and out of the crowd and whispered a few words in Huo Yu's ear.

Huo Yu responded, pushed him away, raised his head to look at me, and nodded.

I probably have a number in my heart, it turned out that he was worried that the autopsy person had some mistakes or something else, so he secretly invited Miss Shen to verify it together, but when Gong Li said that the maid was killed, my heart had fallen to the bottom, and now even Miss Shen has confirmed this statement, and it is not easy to clear up the involvement.

"The deceased did not have a physical altercation with anyone before his death, and there were no signs of a fight on his body, and it is very likely that someone the deceased knew about it." Gong Li gently flipped the female corpse and explained very carefully, "If it is a stranger, it is unlikely that the deceased will have his back to him, and strangulation with a rope is different from other killings, the deceased will definitely struggle, so I think that either the deceased has passed out when she was strangled by the neck, or she knows that she will die and gives up the struggle." ”

"If you say that, don't you want to exonerate such a useless guard as Dongfu, and say that it was my Xiyi people who killed her?" An old man walked outside the crowd, and it was the person I met at the gate of Tai** yesterday.

I looked at him sideways, and he still looked so arrogant that I couldn't help but be annoying.

"Dad" A young man deliberately hid behind him, and the moment he made eye contact with me, he hurriedly avoided it, very familiar, I remembered that he was the person who ** Shen Yi.

It turned out that this was Xiyi's Tobe Shangshu and his son.

"Although the person who came is a guest, you should also abide by the laws and regulations of my Dongfu during the time when I celebrate the birth of the Queen Mother, since the deceased died in my Dongfu territory, and it is within the jurisdiction of my Fuyin, Fuyin will definitely take full responsibility, find out the real culprit, and give the adults an explanation." I couldn't help but glance at Huo Yu and stood up and said.

"Then I will believe the county lord once, and I hope that the county lord will give an answer within three days. Otherwise," the old man's tone was very polite.

"Otherwise?" I'm not used to him, because the Queen Mother didn't want to have more incidents, but he was arrogant again and again, which was really unbearable. "I really want to see you, otherwise, I can't do it."

Huo Yu lowered his head and chuckled.

"County Lord." Gong Li stood up, "The deceased has some special scars on his body, can you find a safe place, let me examine it carefully." ”

Safe place. I had a vague sense that there was a hint in his words.

"Let's send it to Yizhuang." I pondered for a moment and looked at Huo Yu, "You send some trustworthy people to guard Gong Li tightly, except for Gong Li, and you and me, if anyone else needs to see this, they must have my warrant, and those who trespass into Yizhuang to make trouble will be killed." ”

"Yes." Huo Yu responded, waved his hand to find the guard, "Send the body to Yizhuang." ”

The guards carried the corpse out of the palace, and a group of people around it slowly dispersed, Huo Yu followed him to Yizhuang first, I watched him walk to the door, and the figure dressed in blue men's clothes walked out with him.

I stayed, and arranged for the few remaining people to clean up the scene and collect evidence. Xiyi's Hubu Shangshu was angry and let his son help him back to the room.

The courtyard that was still crowded with people just now left one by one, leaving only a few people in a sparse manner.

I didn't have a clue at all, I looked around helplessly, and when I turned around, I saw Huangfu Xuan, who was still there when the crowd dispersed, looking at me with a smile, and it wasn't until I looked at him that he walked towards me with a smile.

"Everyone is praising the lord of Dongfu County for his decisiveness and domineering in directing the country, although I don't believe it all, but today, it seems that Fuyin is indeed a woman who people dare not underestimate." He said very politely, without looking too far away, with his hands behind his back, "If you are too anxious, you may miss some details, it is better to be patient and wait, the person who makes a mistake will be even more unable to sit still, and maybe it will reveal flaws." ”

"You know who's right." He spoke so unhurriedly and with such peace of mind, and his words were not deliberately disguised, but they were revealing subtle information, so I was not afraid that he must have known something. "But you're not going to sue me all, are you?"

He nodded with a smile, "I also want to know how much skill the county lord of Zhaohua has." You have three more days to check. ”

"You're weird." I couldn't help but sigh.

From the moment he appeared, it seemed that he had already made clear the boundaries of his identity, he was very polite, and friendly, from the beginning he was not on the opposite side of me, but he was not very close, as if he kept his distance intentionally or unintentionally, but the qiē he did seemed to be very ordinary.

Or rather, from the very beginning, he was like a bystander, an outsider.

In this way, the boundary between friend and foe is not enough to have one more or less points, and Huangfu Xuan really grasped it just right, "I really can't guess your thoughts." ”

"Or maybe I didn't have that much in mind." He treated it indifferently.

"It's fine." I responded politely, and followed him. "If the Queen Mother mentions to you the marriage contract that her fathers once made, please refuse."

He smiled and shook his head, "If you don't want to, you can refuse yourself, in this case, I won't say it." ”

"Why?" I absolutely don't believe it, he is afraid of hurting my face.

"Just because, the lord of Zhaohua is no different from other women for me, if you marry back to Nancheng and put it in the main palace, it is to fulfill the wish of my late father and the emperor, and to achieve his agreement with others, in the eyes of the world, there is no harm in my loyalty and filial piety, and I can establish a friendly relationship with Dongfu, I have no reason to refuse." He made a lot of sense, and this was probably the first time in my life that I had heard someone explain a political marriage so calmly.

Sure enough, Huang Fuxuan did not disappoint me, he is really a person who analyzes the imperial power very calmly, just like what he said about refusing Dongfu's request for help, he never treated me as a woman, or never treated any woman with his heart, too rational, too clear which is more important.

As he said, if it is beneficial to him, marry me back, and it will only be placed in one of the ** rooms, and it will not affect him in any way.

It's just that his words inevitably make me think of a person. "Sure enough, the royal family is mostly without **, I blamed him before, but it turned out that I was wrong."

"County Lord." His thoughts were interrupted, and the soldiers in the barracks hurriedly reported, "General Huo has made a discovery." ”

"Okay." I answered, turned around and said goodbye to the emperor, "I'll go first." ”

Yizhuang has been tightly sealed by the guards, and in the room where the female corpse is placed, there are only Huo Yu and Gong Li.

"How's it going?" I saw that both of them looked extremely cautious, and asked more and more carefully.

"Female corpse" Gong Li was about to reply, but he looked at Huo Yu and was silent again.

"In the womb of the female corpse, there is a baby that will be formed, and Master Gong said that it is about six months pregnant." Huo Yu's face was not very good-looking, and when he said these words, his tone seemed to be slightly angry.

A pregnant maid must be put to death. "Whose maid is she?"

"It's the maid of the son of the Shangshu family of the Xiyi household."

"On the body of the female corpse, there are still some findings." Gong Li said. "Although I don't know what the murder weapon used to strangle her was, I suspect that there must have been some kind of sharp object, and the maid's body was intact on the surface, but there were blood stains on her back, perhaps the murderer broke his hand when he strangled her."

"Someone." I opened the door and shouted, "Go to the palace and bring the messenger of Xiyi." ”

"I don't know if the county lord has found something, so hastily disturbing my rest." Xiyi, the Lord of the Tobe Shangshu, has been complaining since he got off the carriage.

"This maid is from your house, and she takes care of Ling Gongzi with you, so there are some things I think you need to know." I paused deliberately, observed the expressions of his father and son, and said unhurriedly, "She is six months pregnant. ”

The adult was unmoved.

It was the boy behind him, whose eyes were full of palpation.

"It's just a subordinate, even if you have a child, the county lord shouldn't make a big fuss about these little things, it's better for you to put your mind on catching the murderer."

"Now that it is two lives, I don't know if the adults know who the child's father is for the child in the womb of this maid." I have seen too much of the indifference of human nature, but such a disregard for life really makes people feel that the world is too cold.

"How do I know who the father of the child is? The county lord just concentrates on catching the murderer, and doesn't care about him. "The man who was already half a hundred hairs started a fire, but he was a little lacking in confidence.

"Then may I ask if Childe knows?" I see that the son of the household secretary is hiding behind people, and he is very weak-hearted.

"I don't know. I do not know. "He was flustered.

"Enough. But the county lord is bullying us and other distinguished guests who came to celebrate the birthday of the Empress Dowager Dongfu because he was on the territory of Dongfu? If you want to say that, let's just say that we killed our own maid! Let's go! He was furious, flicked his sleeves and turned away with the group of people from Xiyi.

"What do you think?" Looking at the arrogant back of the group of people leaving, I asked Huo Yu.

"It's hard to say." Huo Yu also watched them slowly walk away, and he couldn't be sure. "The child in the maid's womb should be related to the son of the Shangshu family, but now there is no evidence at all, so it's really hard to draw conclusions."

"I heard that there was a death in the palace." After the Fu Palace dinner, the Queen Mother specially let Huo Yu and I stay, and said bluntly, "Investigate the case and investigate the case, don't involve people's privacy, if you can't find the murderer, just find a dead scapegoat and hand it over, don't make trouble in this stall." ”

I raised my head and was about to say something, Huo Yu pulled down my sleeve behind me, I looked at him with my spare eyes, he only shook his head at me slightly, and I actually swallowed what I was going to say alive.

Coming out of the Empress Dowager's Qingyang Palace, I kept my head down.

"I think, if you want to find out the truth, it's better not to contradict the Queen Mother first, so as to save some obstacles, there are not many clues now, so why bother." Huo Yu walked behind me and sighed.

"Huo Yu, those are two lives, the child in her womb is six months old, and no one knows that she is pregnant, which shows how well she hid the child, but she still didn't have time to see this ridiculous world, so it was gone." I really feel distressed, no matter what the reason, I want to catch that murderer and take a good look at what kind of person he is.

"There are a lot of things in this world, and even if you are tired to death, you can't control a lot." Huo Yu's eyes were full of helplessness, he used to think that his eyes were very good-looking, but now they are very dim.

"If it were me in the past, I would definitely say, then see one thing and do another, until no one in this world dares to do evil." I felt a choked breath in my chest, and I couldn't spit it out or swallow it. "But you know what I was thinking?"

Huo Yu looked sideways at me.

"When I was a child,

"When other people's girls wore new clothes and begged their sweethearts, I was so frivolous that I finally understood that I relied on men to show arrogance at that time, but it was because I was not strong enough, and when I can support my arrogance now, I realized that the person I relied on at that time was not strong, and it was only because I was too weak that I relied on it. But if you want me to lament the unfairness of the world now, and impassionedly evaluate those who despise life, I can't do it. "Now I know too much the truth of survival of the fittest, no one is destined to be strong, but women are destined to bear more medicine than men from the beginning, mine is now I have died several times to fight for, look down on human feelings, even the world has been happy to accept, but I don't even have the strength to complain.

"When I was a teenager, I heard my father tell you about your past. The smoke of gunfire continued in the four countries, and my father followed King Ning on the expedition, and he said that after a battle, everyone was counting the remnants and cleaning up the battlefield. You say, if it were me who was in power today, I would never be like the emperors of these four kingdoms, and I would definitely support the whole world, and the whole world would be the king's land, and all my people, regardless of men and women, would be equal, and there would never be such a human life like grass and mustard. ”

In the dark and moonless night sky, two or three meteors slipped down, so quiet that people's hearts were full of desolation.

Huo Yu looked at me and didn't speak for a long time.

Time really hates wonderful, Zhaohua in other people's memories, but it is already a past that I can't go back, my mouth when I was young, won the laughter of adults, but it has become the admiration of Zhaohua in the hearts of others, but now, I have become an ordinary person who is no different from others.

"The Fuyin I know is probably not a woman who is afraid of things."

There was a faint ache in my heart, although I was deliberately hiding, I was still discovered by Huo Yu, Fuyin, what are you afraid of. Afraid of this battle for royal power, afraid of the troubled times in the world, afraid of this troubled grievances?

"It's because I've died once that I know that death is not so easy to bear." I smiled wryly and quipped, I really don't want to get involved in the palace dispute, what I'm afraid of is that the endless corridor, crying and laughing have nothing to do with me.

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